I.m hoping that for 25man, Stars will win. Just cause asian and cause they get content last. Would be cool! :P
For 10man there will ofc be DREAM Paragon.

I also hope there wont be a million threads claiming that 10/25man is harder/easier.
In my opinion there are 2 races. Thats my opinion and i am entitled to have one, just like you are. Doesn't mean any of us are right or wrong.

If he's going by fewest pulls on empress. But that's a shitty measure.

Hows that a shitty measure? Compared to vodka or method empress kill video it was a clear kill on their 85th try and not a raid wipe and a lucky paladin bubble/shaman ankh res which saved their day.

Another thing that gets me is the general chat when inside the Garrison. It totally reminds me of every prison film I've ever watched. The prisoners confined to their cells are talking to each other through the walls. Their chat is mostly pointless, vulgar and revolving around stuff they ll do once they get out. This is EXACTLY the content of every Garrison chat I've ever had to tolerate.

Which means that rest of playerbase is going to spend weeks (if not months) on it until raidzone buffs kick in. Okay.

What's wrong with that? We're talking about heroic content here. There's plenty of other stuff to do until the zonewide buff kicks in. To begin with, there's 12 other heroic raid bosses that the vast majority of players haven't finished yet. Then you've got all the non-raiding stuff too. Nothing wrong with tuning the final four bosses of a 16 boss tier to be extremely difficult and then nerfing them later.

I could be wrong, but haven't the previous tiers usually taken more than a week on Heroics?

Edit: Double checked wowprogress, 1st Madness kill was 12 days into heroics, the 2nd was 16 days. First Rag kill was 13 days, the 2nd was 20. The first 13/13 T11 clear was 40 days, the second was 45.

You are forgeting that for T13 and T12 ppl went in fully decked in heroic gear from previous tiers which made it easier by default. You should compare this tier with T11, which was not (sort of) gated like this one.

I'm hoping it takes a month or two before the last boss is downed. I'm hoping it takes more than 24 hours for PotE easymode to be downed, actually.

It will be interesting to see if PotE hardmode is a decent wall. How soon will various guilds kill it in normal order and move on to the other bosses? When will they make that decision? Will anyone skip working on hardmode PotE entirely this week and just focus on getting the first Sha kill?

I'm hoping it takes a month or two before the last boss is downed. I'm hoping it takes more than 24 hours for PotE easymode to be downed, actually.

It will be interesting to see if PotE hardmode is a decent wall. How soon will various guilds kill it in normal order and move on to the other bosses? When will they make that decision? Will anyone skip working on hardmode PotE entirely this week and just focus on getting the first Sha kill?

It's reasonable to presume that you will need all 3 previous bosses killed on heroic before engaging Sha of Fear.

It's reasonable to presume that you will need all 3 previous bosses killed on heroic before engaging Sha of Fear, yes, but there's an extra wrinkle in the Protectors of the Endless encounter where the order that you kill the bosses matters.

I'm wondering whether/when the big name guilds will try to do the hardmode PotE this week at all, or whether they'll do the easier kill order first so that they can work on the next three encounters. Is the heroic hardmode so hard that it'll be a stopper?